Senior AI Application Engineer

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

As an AI Application Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and building AI applications, utilizing machine learning and deep learning techniques. Collaborate with various teams to understand business goals and translate them into technical requirements. Develop prompts for data analysis and model training, ensuring high accuracy and performance. Optimize existing AI models and applications for better efficiency. Troubleshoot and fix any technical glitches that occur during development or deployment. Keep up with the latest trends in AI to contribute innovative ideas to projects.

What you'll do

At SAP, a global powerhouse in enterprise software, you'll join a vibrant and innovative team. We're on an AI - first journey, integrating AI into every aspect of product development. Right now, our team is engaged in diverse cutting - edge projects. Our chatbot, already serving a vast international user base across industries, efficiently handles complex customer inquiries. You'll also get to contribute to exciting initiatives, especially in AI agents. It's a collaborative space where knowledge sharing thrives, offering endless opportunities for your growth in enterprise AI development. Come be a part of our dynamic team and shape the future of AI applications

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Experience in the full lifecycle development of AI applications, from conceptualization to deployment, leveraging hands-on experience to ensure seamless functionality and high performance, such as data ingestion, model training, and application integration.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Apply in-depth knowledge of prevalent large language models like GPT and Llama, as well as other relevant AI technologies, in the development process. This involves exploring their capabilities, limitations, and potential applications to create innovative and competitive AI applications.
• Conduct comprehensive testing and meticulous optimization of AI applications, includes performance testing, accuracy validation, and addressing any identified issues or bottlenecks to enhance the overall quality and efficiency of the applications.
• Manage data pipeline for AI model training, including data collection, cleaning, preprocessing, and ensuring data quality and integrity to support accurate and reliable model training.
• Integrate AI features into existing systems and architectures.
• Stay updated on the latest industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in AI.
• Provide ongoing support and maintenance for deployed AI applications. This involves monitoring performance, addressing user feedback, and making necessary updates or adjustments to ensure the applications continue to function optimally

What you bring

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or above in a relevant field.
• At least 8 years of work experience in AI-related fields.
• Proven AI product development experience.
• Proficiency in writing prompts.
• Experience in Agentic AI, Knowledge Graph and etc.
• Understanding of large language model principles.
• Strong programming skills.
• Problem-solving ability.
• Familiarity with data processing and analysis.
• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms like AWS, Azure.
• Eagerness to learn new AI technologies and strong learning ability.
• Good teamwork and communication skills.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Meet your team

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Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP's culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.

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